We didn’t forget about you. We just thought that last night’s show was so ridiculously good that we thought you’d want a little time away to recover before we threw it in your face again. It’s exactly why Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are always going on separate vacations.
Manchester’s finest off-the-soccer field export (sorry Morrissey, New Order, Oasis, Elbow, and Ting Tings), Doves, have finally returned to the world of recorded music from doing whatever it is people do in the north of England. The new album, entitled “Kingdom of Rust”, is slated to crash into iPods in April, while the video for the title track is ready to drop onto laptops now. To watch it is to love it, unless you really hate road trips. In which case I suggest that you turn your monitor off just listen to the music.
What’s with all of these Antipodean bands rocking the Reagan-era redux sound? It’s as if Cut Copy, Ladyhawke and now Cassette Kids were recently removed from a time capsule marked “Do Not Open Until Disco Is No Longer a Dirty Word”.
But while the Cutters and Ladyhawke have tied their dancefloor tendencies firmly to the good ship Electro, Casette Kids sprinkle a bit of Blondie-esque spice over their elastic bass lines that is reminiscent of Ting Tings and New Young Pony Club. And if the sound doesn’t scream “Rapture” to you, singer Katrina Noorbergen’s look is definitely Debbie Harry-done-indie.
So a few days ago we hipped you the explosive video for “Drumroll” by Minnesota MC P.O.S. Not content to let us tell the tale of how this clip was created, the man himself decided to share the True Minneapolis Story of how it all came together, bloody legs and all.
We’re just going to put it out there that mind-altering substances may have had an influence on the psychedelic visual effects in this video. Hell, they may have had an influence on the eqaully trippy audio that accompanies them. Not that we’re here to judge, we’re just saying.